Hot Corners [Expose/Mission Control]

I rememer on my old Macbook (White 2008) model
With "Expose" I could set up multiple hot corners
Top Left
Top Right
Middle Left
Middle Right
Bottom Left
Bottom Right
How do I do this now on my Macbook Pro (running OSX 10.8) ?
I need myself 5 hotspots to make my productivity better.
I currently have 4

This sounds weird but if you are using a non-apple wireless mouse & dongle, try unplugging then see if hot corners work with the built-in touchpad.

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Mavericks hot corners expose

Is there a way even with a third party app to bring back hot corners in mavericks?
why apple remove such a useful function i do not understand...

Hot Corners can be found in System Preferences > Dasktop & Screensavers > Screensavers > bottom right. I have Mission Control set for top left which gives me Exposé.
Cheers
Pete

Hot Corners & Expose vs Windows in Fusion

Hi, I'm a new OS X user (I've had my MBP for a year but finally stopped using bootcamp)
Anyway, I'm starting to like OS X a lot now that I've figured out many of its features (thanks to these forums, mostly).
MY QUESTION:
However, I still need to use windows once in a while and have installed fusion. The problem is the hot corners from Expose that I like so much are problematic when running windows full screen in fusion (i'm used to going to a corner to press the close button or the start button, etc.)
Is there a way to quickly toggle Expose on/off or, even better, have Expose automatically disabled while I'm using certain programs like Fusion?
Thanks for your help.

There's no way to do exactly what you're looking for, but you can do this, which will basically work for you:
When choosing hot corners, hold down a modifier key (like option, control, shift, or ⌘, or some combination of those, as you see fit).
Now you'll have to hold down the button/combination of buttons, in addition to moving the mouse into the corner, for hot corners to activate. (You have to press the button before going into the corner.)
Good luck!
Message was edited by: joshz

Screen Sharing and Hot Corners/expose bug?

I tried searching but I came up with nothing. I have an iMac and a Macbook. On the iMac I have hot corners set up to use expose. On the bottom left I have it show the desktop and on the bottom right I have it show all windows. Now when I use my macbook to screenshare with my iMac and try to drag a file on the iMac, it activates one of the hot corners even though my mouse cursor is no where near either of the corners. If I deactivate the hot corners, I can drag just fine but I don't want to have to do that every time I use screen sharing. So this is making screen sharing pretty useless. Anyone else have this problem? I just submitted a bug report too.

I have the same problem. Very annoying.

Turn back the app history within Expose/Mission Control, Turn back the app history within Expose/Mission Control

For some wierd reason & can't remember if I toyed with the settings under System Preferences but it looks like when I swipe with four fingers down within an app for expose I don't get to see all the previously viewed items with the app. Any suggestions?

I agree with everything you said about full screen apps, mission control and launchpad. For apps that made sense to run full screen, they already could under SL. Launchpad is totally unnecessary and Mission Control is a mere shadow of Expose and Spaces.
However, I feel you have not given due credit to Spaces. The point of Spaces is to let one organise logical desktops for different tasks, not just a way to reduce the number of windows on display. For example, I have a Space for software development where I run Xcode and the iPhone simulator, a Firefox window showing perhaps documentation or some other websites pertaining to software development, a Finder window that is opened in the folder with my design docs. I have another Space where I have the remote login sessions, yet another Space with another Firefox window where I do general surfing and emailing. I can switch between these spaces using a keyboard shortcut, which is much quicker than having to lift my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, move the mouse pointer over the Dock, find the app and click on it, only to find that it has switched to the wrong window of the app.
Without Spaces, organisation of my desktop is disrupted each time I want to switch task, whereas Spaces allows me to drop everything I am doing, go and do something completely different for a while and go back to my exact previous environment. I have a 27" iMac so am not short of screen space but I use Spaces extensively. BTW, switching Spaces using a keyboard shortcut is a lot faster on SL than the equivalent on Lion, thanks to the gratuitous screen animation of the latter.

Can't drag folders or files between apps using mission control

I've been using Lion without any incident so far, but now that I've downloaded the lastest update (10.7.2) I can't drag a file or folder using mouse click (or my wacom tablet) between apps or folders - gestures simply will not work.
Once I click on a file, the multi-touchpad stop responding - if this is for real, Mac just lost it's allure... the nimble feature of exposé and/or mission control was this sole ability to navigate through apps and draggin files.
What's the status, anyone got this issue already?

I've been encountering the exact same problem! that was my favourite multi-touch gesture of all, which improved the productivity greatly. The only workaround for me is to assign hot-corners to mission control and drag files i want to the corners, but I really hope there's an explanation for this because i would really like that feature to be back

Displaying minimized windows in expose and/or Mission Control

OK all of you big fans of the SL way of Expose'. I miss being able to see all of those minimized windows as well.
I have read in a couple places that this is new setup is not a bug, it was removed from Expose'/Mission Control in Lion. I also read that if Apple receives enough requests/complaints about the loss of that feature that they might possibly bring it back!
SO....
Go to the OS X feedback page http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and let Apple know that you want it back! Remember don't jump all over them, be polite and to the point and let them know that you would like the feature back!
I hope this works!
If you want, once you submit a request, let us all know that you are joining in the strugle to bring all the windows back to expose' !

D0GG wrote:
You don't use Expose? Is that why you have been going to thread after thread of users that are missing this feature and posting the same answer?
Not sure why you are doing this... It completely baffles me.
I remember making one other post along these lines, for the same reason. If there are more maybe you could post the links "going to thread after thread" to verify your accusatory comments.
You are the first one who actually gave any kind of clarification, and I appreciate that. It will help me from wasting my time on exposé queries.
That is Expose displaying all the windows of your SELECTED app. On Snow Leopard you had the option to view ALL the windows of ALL the currently running apps, including the finder.
You find that baffling, I think that is your problem D0GG

How do I add spaces in mission control in mountain lion?

I use an external monitor on the right side of my mbp, the external monitor (when in use) is my main screen. I want my (auto retracting) dock on the right side of my right screen (the external one). The top right corner is my hot corner for mission control.
With this setup, when I move my mouse to the right top corner I'll enter mission control, but somehow the "add a new space pop-up button" will not show up. I haven't tried this setup in Lion so I do not know if this is a bug for ML. I really like my dock on the right side of the screen, left is no option and I'm sick of having it at the bottom, but I do want to be able to add spaces, any thoughts how to do this?

multiple ways,
go to mission control and:
hold option, a half of a desktop with a plus will appear, click it.
drag an application's window next to the spaces there are already.
put an app in fullsreen mode.
move mouse over the top left side of the screen, and the desktop with the plus sign will appear to add a new space.

Mission Control is a step backwards

As kids we learn how to organize things and more often than not, the first step is to lay out everything so you can see EVERYTHING. Picking one out of 20 is really EASY for us humans. That's what we learn as kids -- putting stuff together like puzzles. This comes naturally. And Expose+Spaces was just that....
I have been using Mission Control for a a long time now but I can't for the life of me figure out why Apple would ditch something that has worked well in the past.
Mac OS Lion's Mission Control tries to be smart, but its being smart in all the wrong places:
Side swipe is inefficient. I have quite a few apps running in full screen. I get tired of swiping left and right to "locate" my stuff.
Full screen apps and dashboard as tiny thumbnails in mission control? Its a cluster**** (pardon my frustration here) of stuff put together and it confuses me more that the previous expose+spaces.
Apps of the same kind grouped together? Now I have this sinking/uneasy feeling that I can't find what I'm looking for because its not showing me *all* my windows or is buried under some other window. The confidence I had with expose+spaces is now lost.
When Windows came out with Win+Tab functions (that 3D window thing) I always said how really useuless that was when compared to expose especially because it hid 1 window behind another. And fast forward 3+ years, Mac OS X is taking the same step back by grouping all browser windows together.
Expose+Space was simple, uncomplicated and unassuming.
Mission Control is complex, complicated and totally assuming.
Please bring Expose+Spaces back or evolve Mission Control to something like it.
PS-1: Expose of safari should include tabs in the expose view. Why is this so hard? Why do I need to open new safari windows to see it in expose/Mission control?
PS-2: I know there's been feedback around this in this forum and I'm doing my part to make myself heard hopefully by Apple -- I've done the feedback thing already.

Yay! Apple listened, err, I think.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/30/expose-mac-os-x-mountain-lion/
You can almost get the old style Expose back with "Group windows by application" turned off in Mountain Lion.
Not entirely quite the same as the old style Expose. But I can live with this. Side swipe is still inefficient and I end up doing this often:
- Swipe left
- Oops, this isn't the right window.
- Swipe up to get Mission Control.
- Find the right window.
Side swipe never gives me the thing I'm looking for and as a result I'm not very confident using it unless I have a single full screen app running. Anyway I have adjusted to use Mission Control instead to switch between full screen apps. Its not all that bad with that setup.
Now, Safari 6 has side swipe and I'm not loving it either. But I guess we'll have to live with it. Anything is better than nothing I guess..

Hi, my name is Amit, my hot corners stop working after some time. Have to go to mission control to reset them, however they stop again after some time. This is annoying. Can someone please assist to solve this problem? Thanks Amit.

Hi my name is Amit, after upgrading to OS X Maverick I often have problem of my Hot corners stop working after a short period of time. I have to go to mission control and have to reset them for them to start working again. However this is temparory and they stop working again and this is quite annoying. Can someone suggest a cure to this problem please. I will be grateful. Thanks Amit.

Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Log out or restart the computer and test. If there's no change, put the item you moved back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Log out again. Otherwise, delete the item you moved.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Customize Mission Control vs. Expose

In expose I used to be able to customize the corners and gestures that I could use to get to the desktop or see all windows. How do I do the same in mission control?
What I wan to do is have three finger downward swipe show all windows and three fingers upward swipe show the desktop. But it seems the gestures are locked?
How can this be that Lion is less customizable than Snow Leopard?

I'm no expert on Lion but here's the behavior I see with Mission Control that makes it really different from Expose. With Mission Control, if you don't assign an application to a workspace then when you enter Mission Control you see all the spaces along the top and all the applications below. If a application has more than one open window, its windows are stacked together and you can look at the windows stacked below by click dragging. Click and you select that window and leave Mission Control. Click drag and the window comes to the front so you can see it better but you'll stay in Mission Control.
The limitation (if you want to call it that) is that if you have assigned an application to a specific workspace, if you didn't enter from that workspace, you don't see it or its windows in MC (unless you move to its workspace). This has led me to assign far fewer programs to specific windows than I used to. So, for example, since I assigned my word processing programs to space 2, if I enter MC from space 3 I won't see my Pages documents. Even so, I can use a gesure or or control arrow to move to Space to and move one of my Pages documents into another window. (I chose to park my writing applications in a space because they are apps they I most often want to move windows to rather than move their windows to another space.)
This limitation has also led me to temporarily park programs in a space but then unpark them when I've completed a project. In Leopard and Snow Leopard I had lots of programs permanently parked. MC is a different animal that needs a slightly different way of working but for me it has changed my workflow without damaging it.
Does this help?

1 OSX Lion Mission Control vs Snow Leopard Expose can't we combine the two (by leaving older Expose options inside) and get Apple back to leaping forward again?

So I am a web/software developer and I am having major beef with OSX Lion's Mission Control. While I think Mission Control and Application Windows are interesting additions to the multi-tasking nature and scheme of the OS, removing the older Expose Spaces and All Windows is a huge mistake. Couldn't Apple have just left all of the old stuff in? Then the system would be complete. As pretty as Mission Control and Application Windows is, the older Snow Leopard Spaces and Expose moved much faster and tamed all of my apps in a very efficient way.
Here is why Mission Control is not as fast as Spaces and Expose:....
1. With Spaces all of the desktops and their connected monitors were consolidated to one monitor in which you can easily see everything going on from a birds eye view. You cloud easily drag open windows between them freely and even swap spaces. This was huge because you could see everything. You could even activate All Windows over Spaces and see everything..Mission Control will group everything but you can't move programs across desktops unless it's the main desktop to the little desktop. Nor can you move windows across monitors. This is frustrating. Also the desktop are split to their respective monitor so I no longer have a birds-eye key-map access.
2. All Windows is so necessary and slick. Mission Control or Application Windows can't quite keep up. If I have a cluttered desktop and hit all windows, I can get any window at any time no matter how buried it is. Application Windows is useful but only applies to the focused application…but what if it's buried? I have to activate mission control first, select one of the windows from the program group, then activate Application Windows to get to that window. Also if there are many windows open for an application, Mission Control cannot replace All Windows because they stack and you can't quite tell which of the windows you want is accessible in that stack.
The bottom line is, put both of them together! Keep the old functionality as an option, because truth be told, the old way of doing things is still considerably faster under heavy work loads. I would use the Snow Leopard expose features more often. There is still room for Application Windows and Mission Control, but even after re-training myself I feel I'm moving at 70% of the multitasking speed that I used to move at before using Snow Leopard Expose. I mean this legitimately, I develop using multiple OS's along with video chat and instead of being a leap forward, Lion is a step backward and that just isn't like apple, everything Apple has done has been leaps and bounds forward. Let's leap forward and not only have all the sweet new features that Lion offers, but combine with the productive features that really moved and maybe just integrate into Lion's style. Bottle that and you have something sweeter than Yoohoo.

I completely agree with airbnboy. I used to be able to quick organised different windows within the same app to different spaces (now "desktops" for no apparent reason). This worked very smoothly in expose/spaces. I'd use one gesture to get to spaces, then another for expose, and I'd have all my windows in all spaces visible.
Now, I can't even see all of my windows in specific to one desktop! The best I can do is double scroll to see *some parts* of the windows on a desktop. So now, selecting a window for a specifc app is huge pain.
Worse than this, on moving windows from a desktop to another in, Mission Control will change the ordering of the stacks (per app, not the windows in the stacks). Umm, what is the possible benefit there?
So, now there is no use of spatial memory - e.g. Window X for App Y was in the top left of all my windows in the top left space, and I want to move it now. It's no longer possible to see all app windows in a specific "desktop", and much more effort is required to move windows around.
Great, well done Apple. Can we please, please have Expose and Spaces back as an option? Or at the very least, some way to view all windows for a specifc app on a specific desktop - and by "view", I mean see the whole window, not just a tiny indicator of the window, or a slightly expanded stack that may not give enough context.
The only reason I "upgraded" to Lion was to get XCode 4.2.

Mission Control/ Expose issue with stacked pages hard to view. Please help

Is it just me or is there a real issue with the way Mission Control/ Expose displays these stacked windows? For instance, I had about 6 finder windows open, showing 6 different folders on my Desktop. If I then use Mission Control to quickly access a particular folder, it displays all my finder windows together, stacked up on one another and this makes it almost impossible to view which particular folder i want. It doesnt have the folder names displayed so this is seriuosly time consuming now. Is this something im doing wrong, or is it a valid issue?
many thanks

If you are just trying to see all the Finder windows which are available, just invoke App expose. I use a 4 finger swipe down. If you are in finder, just swipe. If you are in another application, hover your mouse over the Finder icon in the dock and swipe. All the windows are easy to see.
(You can, of course, do this with any application, not just the Finder.)
charlie

Mission Control Hot Methods and Events

I have an application that runs slow from time to time. I am trying to create a flight recording to see where the issue is taking place. I would like find methods that are slow, and mainly rule out slow query response in the database tier.
If a DAO method issues a SQL statement, which takes a while to run in the database before the results are returned to the app, which Mission Control view would show this slow behavior? Would it show in the Hot Methods view, since "Hot Methods" are ones that are called frequently and take longer to execute? I am not sure about this, since a database slowness is due to latency where the database tier is having performance issues. Do Hot Methods take into account latencies, or do they only track Java code execution time?
If it does not show on the Hot Methods view, would it show in the "Events" view as maybe a Socket Read latency? Since the database is slow in running the query, the Socket Read may not happen till the result set is ready to be returned to the App.
If none of the above will work, what method should be used to quickly diagnose a slow running database.
Another related question ... after a method is determined "hot" and is optimized, will it continue to show as being "hot" in a later Flight Recording (assuming considerable time is still being spent in executing that method)?
Any information on this is much appreciated!
Thanks.

Hi,
Are you using WebLogic?
If you are, you can turn on Flight Recorder events for WLS that track database latencies.
See here for more information:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13714/using_flightrecorder.htm
Erik

Exposing MBeans to JRocket mission control

HI,
We could see the MBeans of following types in JRockit Mission Control which is connected to external wls.
JMImplementation
bea.jrockit.management
com.sun.management
java.lang
java.util.logging
oracle.javatools.cache
jrockit.synthetic.
But we would like to get the alert when the wls server Health status is in Warning status.
This information is available in com.bea.* MBeans which we could not see in remotely connected JRockit Mission Control.
HOw can we expose com.bea.* MBeans to the externally connected JRockit Mission Control?
Thanks,
Surender.

See the discussion in the following thread: Custom JMX MBeans not showing JRMC under Weblogic 10.3.1

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